MOLESTATION ADDED TO CHARGES AGAINST TEACHER.Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff Writer VAN NUYS - A longtime San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. teacher, charged in March with downloading child pornography from the Internet, now faces seven new charges of molesting children, some who were his pupils more than 30 years ago. Paul Kreutzer kreu·zer or kreut·zer n. Any of several small coins of low value formerly used in Austria and Germany. [German, from Middle High German kriuzer, from kriuze, , a former president of the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. Historical Society, was arrested Monday at his Canyon Country home and charged with five counts of lewd acts upon a child and two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14. On Tuesday, FBI officials urged any former students or their parents to come forward if they had information to bolster their case. Kreutzer, who has taught at several parochial and public elementary schools in the Los Angeles area since 1972, has denied the child pornography charges filed in federal court and is awaiting trial. He is scheduled to appear Friday for arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted on the molestation molestation n. the crime of sexual acts with children up to the age of 18, including touching of private parts, exposure of genitalia, taking of pornographic pictures, rape, inducement of sexual acts with the molester or with other children, and variations of these charges, filed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Kreutzer is being held on $1 million bail at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. Six of the seven new charges stem from complaints from a half-dozen women who, upon hearing about the federal case against Kreutzer, filed complaints saying they had been molested mo·lest tr.v. mo·lest·ed, mo·lest·ing, mo·lests 1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy. 2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity. by the teacher from 1968-76. The final lewd act upon a child charge stems from incidents in September and October 1996, prosecutors said. State laws allow criminal complaints to be filed within a year of the date sex crimes are reported. One woman told investigators that Kreutzer molested her when she was his pupil at a Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley and during a field trip to Death Valley, a family member said. Kreutzer has worked for the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. since 1986, when he took a position at Vena Elementary School in Arleta. He moved to Sunland Elementary School in 1991 and transferred to Liggett Elementary School in Panorama City in 1996. He was placed on unpaid compulsory leave March 16 and will remain on leave while his case is pending, said school district spokeswoman Hilda Ramirez. Liggett Elementary School Principal David Sanchez said Tuesday he did not know if any of the cases involved students at his school. He did meet with worried parents in March, after Kreutzer's initial arrest on campus on suspicion of possession of child pornography. Computer disks seized from Kreutzer's mobile home had eight images of nude girls or young girls with their clothing pulled up to expose their genitals, according to an affidavit filed by FBI Special Agent Douglas Hunt in March. On Tuesday, Los Angeles sheriff's Detective Doug Blaydes, a member of a federal multiagency task force investigating the case, encouraged any former students, parents or school employees who may have information that would assist investigators to contact the Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement team. The SAFE team is a regional Crimes Against Children Task Force comprised of investigators from the state Bureau of Investigation, Department of Corrections, Parole and Community Services Division and the FBI, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. , LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. and the Orange County Sheriff's Department Orange County Sheriff's Department could refer to several sheriff's offices in the United States including:
Anyone with information is urged to contact SAFE at the FBI at (310) 996-3612 or (310) 996-4236. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Paul Kreutzer Arrested at home |
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